Ted Bundy's younger half-brother once revealed the first time he noticed something wasn't quite right with his notorious sibling.
The serial killer kidnapped, murdered and raped at least 30 women across several states in the US in the 1970s.
He was known to use his charm to lure his victims, often pretending to be injured or in need of help.
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Bundy, who often revisited the bodies of his victims, was arrested in 1975 amid a series of escapes and trials, during which he acted as his own attorney.
In 1989, he was eventually convicted and executed in Florida.
His half-brother Rich Bundy has since spoke about his sibling in Amazon Prime Video docu-series Ted Bundy: Falling For A Killer, which came out in 2020.
He recalled the time Ted moved to Utah to attend law school while Rich would go out and visit him for camping trips.
"We were more than just brothers, you know, we were close friends," Rich said. "I looked forward to spending time with him, which I did a lot of."
However, unlike Ted, one trip was suddenly cut short and Rich wasn't given much of an explanation.
“He sent me home early,” he said. “I was really upset with him because it was out of the blue.”
Rich also recalled the time the pair waited at the airport for his flight home, and the younger sibling said Ted's face suggested he was 'horrified and disgusted by something'.
Trish Wood, director and producer of the film, said this was the first time Rich had given an interview about his evil half-brother and that 'he still struggles with the betrayal of trust and having looked up to someone as a hero who turned out to be a monster'.
"He wishes he had known more about his big brother who he worshipped as a little boy and looked up to and his trauma is vast and deep and irreparable, in my view, but he wanted to step forward for the women," Wood told Oxygen.
On coming to terms with Ted's crimes, Rich added: “At the same time, part of me was blocking it out going, ‘dude, whatever it is, you can’t do nothing about it, only gonna ruin your life.
“Part of me was trying to protect myself from all the pain by saying, ‘Man, just go outside and ride your skateboard. F**k him.’”
Ted’s then-girlfriend Elizabeth Kendall, known at the time as Elizabeth Kloepfer, would often join the pair on their camping trips.
“Ted just adored Richard,” Kendall recalled in the documentary. “(He) always wanted to take him places and do things with him.”
Topics: Ted Bundy, Documentaries, True Crime, Crime
Anish Vij